IndoNews Crawler – Indonesian Online News Aggregator

What does IndoNews Crawler do?

IndoNews Crawler automatically crawls, enriches, and summarizes news articles from major Indonesian media outlets: Detik, Kompas, CNN, Tempo, Beritasatu, Antara, etc. It provides sentiment, category, and emotion analysis with the latest news updates to help you understand current issues, trends, and media sentiment in Indonesia.

This actor can extract:

• Article titles
• Publication timestamps
• Media source names
• Sentiment and emotion labels
• Full text of the article
• Category or topic classification

Why scrape Indonesian news?

Online news is a key source of real-time public sentiment and issue tracking in Indonesia. IndoNews Crawler aggregates thousands of articles daily and helps organizations monitor, research, or analyze them at scale.

Here are some use cases:

• Media monitoring
• Public relations (PR) monitoring
• Market and economic intelligence
• Political and policy analysis
• AI training datasets
• Academic and research projects
• Automation and API access

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Example use cases

The IndoNews Crawler – Indonesian Online News Aggregator can be used in many industries that rely on timely news intelligence and large-scale text datasets.

Media monitoring

Track how topics, organizations, or public figures are mentioned across Indonesian media.
Example keywords input: (prabowo, jokowi, pilpres) !rumor

Use cases:

• Monitor political coverage
• Track brand mentions in national media
• Identify trending public issues

Public relations (PR) monitoring

PR teams can track sentiment and media narratives around their brand, products, or executives.

Example keywords input: startup indonesia, pendanaan startup

The actor provides:

• sentiment analysis
• emotion detection
• media source identification

This helps detect potential PR crises early.

Market and economic intelligence

Companies and analysts can monitor macroeconomic and business news.

Example keywords input: harga minyak dunia, inflasi indonesia, suku bunga bank indonesia

Use cases:

• economic trend monitoring
• commodity news tracking
• financial market sentiment analysis

Political and policy analysis

Researchers and analysts can track political narratives across Indonesian media.

Example keywords input: (kebijakan pemerintah, regulasi digital, uu ite) !hoaks

Possible insights:

• policy debate trends
• political sentiment shifts
• government narrative tracking

AI training datasets

The crawler generates structured news data that can be used as a corpus for machine learning.

Each article includes:

• title
• category
• sentiment
• emotion
• full article text
• publication date

This makes the dataset suitable for:

• NLP model training
• sentiment classification
• topic modeling
• news recommendation systems

Academic and research projects

Universities and research institutions can use the dataset for:

• media studies
• political communication analysis
• sentiment analysis research
• misinformation detection

The actor supports date range filtering, allowing historical media analysis.

Automation and API access

The actor can be integrated directly into automated workflows using the Apify API.

This allows you to:

• schedule daily news monitoring
• export datasets to analytics pipelines
• connect with BI tools
• build AI pipelines

Example workflow:

Daily Run → Dataset → Data Warehouse → Dashboard / AI Model

💡 Tip: Many users run the actor daily with keyword monitoring to build a continuously updated news intelligence database.

How to use IndoNews Crawler

Scraping Indonesian online news with IndoNews Crawler is easy. Follow these simple steps to start collecting data in minutes.

1. Click Try for free on the actor’s Apify page.
2. Enter your search keywords, date range, and optional pagination parameters.
3. Click Run.
4. Once the run finishes, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab.

Input parameters

The actor supports several input parameters that allow you to filter news results by keywords, date range, and pagination.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
keywords	string	Yes	–	Search query used to filter news articles. Supports logical operators such as AND (space), OR (comma), and NOT (!).
startDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	No	7 days before	Start date for filtering articles based on publication date.
endDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	No	Today	End date for filtering articles based on publication date.
limit	integer	No	50	Maximum number of articles returned per page.
page	integer	No	1	Page number used for pagination.
sortBy	string	No	'time'	Output is sorted by: time or relevance.

Keywords query syntax

The keywords parameter supports simple logical operators.

Operator	Symbol	Example	Meaning
AND	space	teknologi ai	Both keywords must appear
OR	comma ,	ekonomi, bisnis	Either keyword may appear
NOT	!	politik !korupsi	Exclude articles containing the keyword

Example complex keywords input: (teknologi artificial intelligence, harga minyak dunia) !gibran

Meaning:

• Articles about AI technology, OR
• Global oil prices
• Excluding articles mentioning gibran

Pagination behavior

The actor supports pagination for large datasets.

Example:

Page	Limit	Results Returned
1	100	Articles 1–100
2	100	Articles 101–200
3	100	Articles 201–300

Output

The actor outputs structured data containing enriched and analyzed articles with sentiment, emotion, and category classification.

Example results

Here is a sample of the data this actor produces:

{
  "title": "Otoritas Pasar Modal Salurkan Rp 3,96 Miliar untuk Pemulihan Bencana Banjir di Sumatera",
  "media_name": "Kompas",
  "published_at": "2026-02-23T20:40:00",
  "url": "https://money.kompas.com/read/2026/02/23/204000726/otoritas-pasar-modal-salurkan-rp-3-96-miliar-untuk-pemulihan-bencana-banjir-di",
  "image": "https://asset.kompas.com/crops/dCQpeGZO7ZSP5DKBk8BWrrXAKnU=/0x0:721x481/1200x800/data/photo/2026/01/02/695769417a808.jpg",
  "emotion": "Joy",
  "sentiment": "Positive",
  "category": "Finance",
  "content": "JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Otoritas pasar modal Indonesia menyalurkan donasi sebesar Rp 3,96 miliar untuk mendukung percepatan pemulihan pasca bencana banjir dan longsor di Sumatera..."
}

How much will it cost?

Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. That’s enough to run IndoNews Crawler and fetch thousands of articles every month — completely free.

If you need continuous or large-scale crawling, we recommend the Starter plan at $49/month or higher for enterprise-scale operations.

IndoNews Crawler uses Apify’s Pay-Per-Event (PPE) monetization model. You pay only for the resources you use — no subscription lock-in.

Event	Description	Price (USD)
actor-start	Each time the actor is executed	$0.00005 per run
dataset-item	Per result (per news article retrieved)	$0.001 – $0.0005 per result (the price automatically decreases as your usage volume increases)
date-filter	Each time the actor is executed	$0.008 – $0.005 per run

💵 Example Cost Calculations

Scenario	Articles Retrieved	Estimated Cost
Small batch	500	$0.00005 + (500 × $0.001) = $0.50
Medium batch	5 000	$0.00005 + (5 000 × $0.00075) ≈ $3.75
Large batch	20 000	$0.00005 + (20 000 × $0.001) = $10.00

Apify handles all billing automatically — you only pay for what you actually process. You’ll receive a full itemized breakdown of events per run.

Tips for using IndoNews Crawler

• Use clear and concise keywords for better relevance.
• Narrow down results with a reasonable date range.
• If you need daily monitoring, use Apify’s Scheduler to automate daily runs.
• Combine IndoNews Crawler output with other NLP or visualization tools for deeper insights.
• Track your usage and spending from the Billing → Usage summary in Apify Console.

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🧾 Summary

• Name: IndoNews Crawler – Indonesian Online News Aggregator
• Category: Scrapers / AI / NLP
• Use case: Sentiment & trend analysis, news aggregation, data enrichment
• Pricing: $0.00005 per run + ($0.002 up to $0.001) per result
• Updated: Every few minutes
• Ideal for: PR agencies, researchers, analysts, and AI developers

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